SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil told Kerrang! magazine in a new interview that the unveiling of a statue of the band's late singer, Chris Cornell, last month at Seattle's MoPOP Museum was both "surreal" and a "source of great pride." The life-size statue, commissioned and donated to the museum by Vicky Cornell, stands outside MoPOP's south ...

Roddy Bottum says that he has been making new music with his FAITH NO MORE bandmates Mike Bordin and Billy Gould, three years after the release of the group's acclaimed comeback album, "Sol Invictus". The influential influential alt-metal act initially reunited for touring purposes in 2009, twelve years after issuing its previous studio set, "Album ...

According to The Blast, Tim Commerford's wife has filed for divorce from the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and PROPHETS OF RAGE bassist. Aleece Commerford filed documents on November 28 to end the couple's 17-year marriage. The 50-year-old rocker and Aleece Commerford were married in 2001 and have two sons together, Xavier and Quentin. ...

"Stay Tuned" is the passion project of Austrian multi-instrumentalist Bernhard Welz. Not unlike other musicians, Welz often gathers his musical friends around to play and sing along to the songs he wrote, produced and arranged. The difference between him and others is however, that his friends include some of the greatest rock and roll legends ...

A benefit concert in memory of late SOUNDGARDEN and AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell, billed as "I Am The Highway: A Tribute To Chris Cornell", will take place at the Forum in Los Angeles on January 16, 2019. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the show will feature performances from FOO FIGHTERS and METALLICA, as well as appearances ...

LAST IN LINE will release its sophomore album, "II", on February 22, 2019 via Frontiers Music Srl. As with 2016's "Heavy Crown", the new disc was produced by DOKKEN and FOREIGNER bassist Jeff Pilson. The official music video for the album first single, "Landslide", can be seen below. "'Landslide' was the first song we wrote ...

Fan-filmed video footage of Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi performing the DEEP PURPLE classic "Burn" on November 27 at the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania stop of the "Generation Axe" tour can be seen below. Vai recently told the Wichita, Kansas radio station 89.1 KMUW that the inaugural "Generation Axe" tours in ...

New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL will release their 19th studio album, "The Wings Of War", on February 22, 2019 via Nuclear Blast. The disc was recorded at Gear Recording Studio in New Jersey, SKH Studio in Florida and Jrod Productions with engineering handled by bassist D.D. Verni and guitarist Dave Linsk. The album was ...

U.K.-based blackened death metal group HECATE ENTHRONED will release "Embrace Of The Godless Aeon", its first album in five years (and its debut for new label M-Theory Audio), on January 25, 2019. The LP — which features cover artwork by Nestor Avalos (BLOODBATH, ROTTING CHRIST, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) — can be pre-ordered now on ...

Greek extreme metal veterans ROTTING CHRIST will release their new album, "The Heretics", on February 15, 2019 via Season Of Mist. The artwork for the disc created by Greek artist Maximos Manolis. The lyric video for the song "Fire, God And Fear" can be seen below. Frontman Sakis Tolis comments: "Dear metal brothers around! After ...